GOP lawmakers are racing to nowhere fast unless the two chambers can find agreement on the major sticking point in rival budget plans.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) sweeping budget framework would renew $4.5 trillion of Trump’s expiring tax cuts from 2017 coupled with $2 trillion in spending reductions that would include slashing Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) wants to punt on Medicaid until a second budget bill later this year focused on tax cuts and is instead moving ahead on a narrower $340 billion measure covering the border, energy, and defense.
Meanwhile, Trump and his aides have given Congress whiplash on possible changes to the safety net program that covers 72 million lower-income
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